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i know there is not a parent in america who doesn't feel the same overwhelming grief that i do. the majority of those who died today were children. beautiful kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. they had their entire lives ahead of them. birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. among the fallen were also teachers and men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams. our hearts are broken today. for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these little children and for the families of the adults who were lost. our hearts are broken for the parents of the survivors as well. for as blessed as they are to have their children home tonight, they know their children's innocence has been torn away from them too early and there no words that will ease their pain. as a country we have been through this too many times. whether it's an elementary school in newtown or a shopping mall in oregon or temple in wisconsin or a movie theater in aurora or a street corner in chicago. these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods and these
i know there is not a parent in america who doesn't feel the same overwhelming grief that i do. the majority of those who died today were children. beautiful kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. they had their entire lives ahead of them. birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. among the fallen were also teachers and men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams. our hearts are broken today. for the parents and grandparents, sisters and...
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want to get an immediate thought, who is the fairest of them all, the truth about taxes and wealth in america. steven, thanks for being here. so we have spent six months talking to lawmakers, republican and democrats. this can't happen. we can't go off the fiscal cliff. we have got to meet this deny. now what we're hearing, it is not that bad, we have time. >> what jessica said about the term paper, getting it done in time. you know what happens if you don't get it done in time? you get an f. and a lot of american voters are going to say an "f" to all the politicians if they don't get it done. look, i don't think it would be the end of the world if we go off the fiscal cliff. and it think it would be resolved in the weeks ahead. but this is kind of a black eye for the political system. here we are, two or three days ahead from the start of the year. without any american business investor, or worker, this just is not a very good way to run a country. and it is almost like banana republic politics. >> my dad used to say, no way to run a railroad. or government. let's talk about a couple of thin
want to get an immediate thought, who is the fairest of them all, the truth about taxes and wealth in america. steven, thanks for being here. so we have spent six months talking to lawmakers, republican and democrats. this can't happen. we can't go off the fiscal cliff. we have got to meet this deny. now what we're hearing, it is not that bad, we have time. >> what jessica said about the term paper, getting it done in time. you know what happens if you don't get it done in time? you get...
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i think it goes to what america is all about. do we really want to do things which are inhumane and basically immoral, in other words, torturing people. do we want to do that? and what is the impact of our image in the world when we do do that? we are in a vast long twilight i ideological struggle with the forces of islam. and this gives them all kinds of ammunition when they have a movie shows we are torturing people. you see my point? >> we see your point. certainly do, senator. let's talk about chuck hagel the former republican senator from nebraska. man you know, you served with him. if the president nominates him to succeed leon panetta as the secretary of defense, will you vote to confirm him? >> i want to give him the opportunity if he's nominated to testify. he'll pay visits to people, before the armed services committee, which i'm a member, as you know. but i do believe that with any nomination that we will exercise our responsibilities of advise and consent. as you know, chuck hagel and i had some differences over the y
i think it goes to what america is all about. do we really want to do things which are inhumane and basically immoral, in other words, torturing people. do we want to do that? and what is the impact of our image in the world when we do do that? we are in a vast long twilight i ideological struggle with the forces of islam. and this gives them all kinds of ammunition when they have a movie shows we are torturing people. you see my point? >> we see your point. certainly do, senator. let's...
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and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> one group of americans not taking the looming fiscal cliff sitting down, seniors, turning out in droves in washington with a strong warning to congress. lisa sylvester has details. >> wolf, the aarp is a powerful group in washington, it spent about $7.5 million on lobbying this year. but its real strength may be the grass roots efforts with a large number of senior volunteers, and right now their aim is to keep social security and medicare intact. jean has often traveled to washington from her colorado home. this time, the 70-year-old retiree is here as a volunteer with the aarp. she and other seniors are blanketing capitol hill with a single message, hands off. >> we're very concerned. we don't want medicare, medicaid, and social security to be used as part of deficit reducing bill in such a short period of time. >>
and bp's also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. we're working to fuel america for generations to come. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> one group of americans not taking the looming fiscal cliff sitting down, seniors, turning out in droves in washington with a strong warning to congress. lisa sylvester has details. >> wolf, the aarp is a powerful group in washington, it spent about $7.5 million on lobbying...
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is this america? i don't think so. >> reporter: to be sure, gun control legislation has stalled over the past decade largely because democrats concluded it was bad politics. especially for vulnerable democrats in conservative states. some half a dozen of those moderate senate democrats face voters in the next election, and none has embraced new gun restrictions yet. the nra, which traditionally has the power to hurt democrats in red straigates who support gun control, has been notably silent. after shooting spree in the movie theater in colorado, several lawmakers from red states told me they definitely feel the nra's clout still here on capitol hill, and just being, wolf, in senator feinstein's front office for five minutes, i could see the phones ringing off the hook about her call to revive or reinstate the assault weapons ban. at least make that the first piece of legislation in the new congress but it is very interesting it's not just the nra keeping mum right now, republican senators, most of th
is this america? i don't think so. >> reporter: to be sure, gun control legislation has stalled over the past decade largely because democrats concluded it was bad politics. especially for vulnerable democrats in conservative states. some half a dozen of those moderate senate democrats face voters in the next election, and none has embraced new gun restrictions yet. the nra, which traditionally has the power to hurt democrats in red straigates who support gun control, has been notably...
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the answer is not to arm america and arm america's schools. the answer is to try to get the guns out of the hands of people who would do this kind of violence. we've got to look in a totally different direction than where some of these people are trying to point ous. >> congressman murphy, thanks so much for joining us. good luck. this is going to be a tough assignment for you and a tough assignment for everyone here. i think i speak for all of us. we've been thoroughly impressed by the people in newtown who could not have been warmer and more welcoming and have been excellent in dealing with the enormity of this crisis. congressman and senator, thanks very much. >> thank you very much. >>> still ahead, as newtown buries some of its children, a glimpse at the hard road ahead from parents who lost sons and daughters in other mass killings. >>> just going to a friend's wedding and watching her dance with her father, there's no way to stop the tears. >> to know what we're never going to have those simple joys, ever again. sts cell health plays a
the answer is not to arm america and arm america's schools. the answer is to try to get the guns out of the hands of people who would do this kind of violence. we've got to look in a totally different direction than where some of these people are trying to point ous. >> congressman murphy, thanks so much for joining us. good luck. this is going to be a tough assignment for you and a tough assignment for everyone here. i think i speak for all of us. we've been thoroughly impressed by the...
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the magazine calls him both the symbol and architect of this new america. that was a quote. also on the list was mala malala yousufzal, the teenager, the pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the taliban. number three, the successor to apple's steve jobs, tim cook. i'm brooke baldwin in the cnn headquarters in atlanta. in the meantime, we go to wolf blitzer. >>. hey, wolf. >> brooke, thank you very much. president obama challenging washington to do something about gun control. >> summon even one tiny iota of the courage that the teachers, the principal in newtown showed on friday. >>> finally, some real answers about the benghazi attack that killed four americans. we now know more than reason for the grossly inadequate security. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with president obama's call to action against what he calls the national epidemic of gun violence amid the trauma over the newtown school massacre, he has put vice president biden in charge of the agenda that could be submitted to congress next month. and a growing number of americans wa
the magazine calls him both the symbol and architect of this new america. that was a quote. also on the list was mala malala yousufzal, the teenager, the pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the taliban. number three, the successor to apple's steve jobs, tim cook. i'm brooke baldwin in the cnn headquarters in atlanta. in the meantime, we go to wolf blitzer. >>. hey, wolf. >> brooke, thank you very much. president obama challenging washington to do something about gun control....
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at 88 years old, bush is america's hoamerica e america's oldest living former president. cnn's miguel marquez joins us from houston. what's the latest? >> reporter: the latest seems to be that he is sick, but not critical. even his current chief of staff, coming out today, gene becker, with a statement saying, you know, put the harps back in the closet. he's not going anywhere yet. when i read you a little bit of that statement, will he be in the hospital for a little while, wrote becker, yes. he is 88 years old, he had a terrible case of bronchitis, which is then complications, because of he had parkinson's disease. he got out of the hospital, went back in with the bronchitis, and it really took it out of him, it sounds like. now he's beyond the bronchitis, but they're trying to get him back up to his fighting weight, back into shape so they can get him out of the hospital, get rid of that fever that seems to be keeping him down a little bit. his spokesperson today did say, make no make about it, this guy's humor, his trademark sense of humor is in tact and all of his fa
at 88 years old, bush is america's hoamerica e america's oldest living former president. cnn's miguel marquez joins us from houston. what's the latest? >> reporter: the latest seems to be that he is sick, but not critical. even his current chief of staff, coming out today, gene becker, with a statement saying, you know, put the harps back in the closet. he's not going anywhere yet. when i read you a little bit of that statement, will he be in the hospital for a little while, wrote becker,...